| NOUN | animal | wolf | any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs |
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| person | Wolf, Hugo Wolf | Austrian composer (1860-1903) | |
| person | Wolf, Friedrich August Wolf | German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824) | |
| person | wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher | a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women | |
| person | wolf, beast, savage, brute, wildcat | a cruelly rapacious person | |
| VERB | consumption | wolf, wolf down | eat hastily |
| Sounds | wuh'lf | |
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| Rhymes | Beowulf ... Woolf: 6 rhymes with uhlf... | |
| Meaning | Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs. | |
|---|---|---|
| Member of | Canis, genus Canis | type genus of the Canidae |
| Narrower | coyote, prairie wolf, brush wolf, Canis latrans | small wolf native to western North America |
| red wolf, maned wolf, Canis rufus, Canis niger | Reddish-grey wolf of southwestern North America | |
| timber wolf, grey wolf, gray wolf, Canis lupus | A wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America | |
| white wolf, Arctic wolf, Canis lupus tundrarum | wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail | |
| wolf pup, wolf cub | A young wolf | |
| Broader | canine, canid | Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles |
| Spanish | loba, lobo | |
| Catalan | llop | |
| Adjectives | lupine | of or relating to or characteristic of wolves |
| wolflike, wolfish | resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf | |
| Meaning | Austrian composer (1860-1903). | |
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| Synonym | Hugo Wolf | |
| Instance of | composer | someone who composes music as a profession |
| Spanish | Hugo Wolf, Wolf | |
| Catalan | Hugo Wolf | |
| Meaning | German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824). | |
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| Synonym | Friedrich August Wolf | |
| Instance of | classicist, classical scholar | A student of ancient Greek and Latin |
| Spanish | Friedrich August Wolf | |
| Catalan | Friedrich August Wolf | |
| Meaning | A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women. | |
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| Synonyms | woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher | |
| Broader | womanizer, womaniser, philanderer | A man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them |
| Meaning | A cruelly rapacious person. | |
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| Synonyms | beast, savage, brute, wildcat | |
| Broader | attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter | someone who attacks |
| Spanish | animal, bárbaro, bestia, bruto, fiera, salvaje | |
| Catalan | animal, bèstia, fera, salvatge | |
| Meaning | Eat hastily. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | They wolf more bread | |
| Example | "The teenager wolfed down the pizza" | |
| Synonym | wolf down | |
| Broader | eat | take in solid food |
| Spanish | devorar, zamparse | |
| Catalan | cruspir-se, devorar | |
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